How do I cite a website in APA 7?

Choose APA and Web page, enter the author or organisation, the page title, the site name, the publication date and the URL.

How do I write et al. in MLA?

For three or more authors, MLA 9 lists the first author followed by "et al." The generator does this automatically.

What if there is no author or date?

APA moves the title into the author position and uses (n.d.) for no date. Leave those fields blank and the tool handles it.

Does the generator change my title capitalisation?

No. Titles are used as typed, so apply sentence case for APA and title case for MLA yourself.

No. Citations are formatted in your browser and the list disappears when you close the page.

Citation Generator – APA 7 & MLA 9 References, Free

Choose a style and source type, fill in what you know and copy the formatted reference. Add several to build a sorted reference list.

APA and MLA in a nutshell

Citation styles exist so that readers can find exactly the sources you used. APA style, from the American Psychological Association, is common in psychology, education, business and the social sciences. Its reference entries put the date near the start because recent research matters in those fields: Author, A. A. (Year). Title. Source. MLA style, from the Modern Language Association, is used across the humanities and puts the emphasis on authors and titles, with a "Works Cited" list. This generator follows the current editions, APA 7 and MLA 9, for the three most common source types: journal articles, books and web pages.

How to use it

Pick the style and source type and fill in the fields. Only the fields relevant to that type are shown. Write authors one per line, either as "Jane A. Smith" or "Smith, Jane A."; the tool works out the surname and initials. For organisations, such as World Health Organization, just type the name. The formatted citation appears as you type, with titles in italics where the style requires them. Press Copy citation to paste it into your document, or Add to list to collect several references, which are kept in alphabetical order as both styles require.

Rules the generator applies

APA authors: surname and initials, with an ampersand before the last author, up to 20 authors.
MLA authors: one author in full, two joined with "and", three or more shortened to the first author plus "et al."
Missing information: APA uses "(n.d.)" when there is no date, and moves the title to the front when there is no author.
DOIs: written as https://doi.org/ links, which both styles now prefer to plain URLs.
Page ranges: hyphens are converted to en dashes, and MLA adds "p." or "pp."

Check before you submit

Titles are used exactly as you type them, because automatic capitalisation would break names, acronyms and chemical formulas. In APA, article and book titles use sentence case (only the first word and proper nouns capitalised), while journal names use title case. In MLA, titles use title case. Your instructor or journal may also have house rules that differ from the official manuals, so treat the output as a well-formatted draft. Copying keeps the text but may drop italics in some apps; check italics after pasting.

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Citation Generator (APA & MLA)